The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1887-03-19
sinated her husband and the missing ar

suspicion. She had lived unhappily with
him; he had determined to reduce
his establ. shment; h. had struck her,
All these facts were testified to by domes
tics. Then came the episode of the pis-
tol, narrated by the valet, and the fur
thcr fact, admitted by Nine. Seasons
maid when she was cleverly captured or
the street and removed to the Office of
the Judge of Instruction. that Nine. Sas-
son had key to the garden and the side
door of the house, and that she had been
absent from her sisters house for two
hours between $50 and IL 30 the night
OF o tobcr %.
Everything cling thus clear, Nine
SassOn was arrested and charged with
the crime of murder. Nine. Sasson de-
MED the accusation and told the story
as the reader has it before him, emitting
the epi.ode of The pistol.
''Do you remember going to the bureau
in the library before you left the house
October 22i" the Judge Of Instruction
asked her.
"Yes. do"
"You took a revolver out Of the
bureau, and You haven't mentioned the
fact"
Il did; but l RETAINED from saying
anything about it because did not wish
to have to say that was afraid my hus-
band might shoot one or the other of
u.s."
"What did you do with the pistol2"
81 put it behind vase on the mantel-
piece in my husbands apartment, in
tending to remove it. but I forgot it."
In consultation afterward the Judge
said to Coupe, detective:
"This woman does not talk nor look
Ike gui ty per-on. II she is not guilty
and, mark you, she has just the sum
of money she says she went for to her
boudoir, and the missing watch has not
been found near her or about hcr-if she
is not the assassin, how came the muir
dcrer to find the pistol hidden behind
the vase2 You have cen the vase, and
know Just how and where she laid it. Is
it possible that any one whom Nine. Sas-
son left behind her did the decd?'
This suggestion put the detective on a
line OF inquiry, and he pursued it with
vigor, but found no clew. Nine. Sasson
was convicted of the killing OF her hus-
band and sentenced to fifteen years i'm
prisonment.
Jean Chauban, the former valet of NJ
Slsson, assumed the name Of Roumrine
and opened a wineshop in the Rue Grouse,
near the Bots de loulogne. Six months
after Nine. Seasons conviction, in the
spring Of 1866. Detective Coupe was
looking for wandering swindler who
had cheated several charitable ladies in
the suburbs Of the city. In his wander
ings Coupe dropped into the wincshop of
Jean Roamane. and was soon on friendly
terms with that gentleman; for he i'm
mediately identified him, deliberately
transformed as he was, as NJ Seasons
former valet, whom he had watched for
month, in various DISCUSSES, to see
whether he could connect him with the
crime of October 22d
NJ. Roumaine had splendid gold chain
on his vest, and Coupe asked him the
time. He pulled out the elegant repeater,
which Coupe had no hesitation in saying
exactly answered the description of the
watch stolen from NJ. Sass0n whcr he
was murdered.
"a fine watch" said the officer
"Ies-a present from dead FRIEND"
answered Roum1inc.
"Ah, very precious, no doubt" said !
the officer. !
"A sad remembrance, WAS the reply,
with an as ,umed look of sorrow.
II once knew gentleman who had o
watch Just like that" SAID the detective,
and. strange to say, he is dead also"
a COINCIDENCE" said the valet. /,
"WOnt monsieur drink"
Thanks" was the reply. at is
strange coincidence, and, would you be-
lieye it, my friend was murdered. Why, ,
monsieur, what is the matter with you!
Was your friend murdered also2"
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